The number of children
killed during the Holocaust is not fathomable and full statistics for the tragic
fate of children who died will never be known. Some estimates range as high as
1.5 million murdered children. This figure includes more than 1.2 million Jewish
children, tens of thousands of Gypsy children and thousands of institutionalized
handicapped children who were murdered under Nazi rule in Germany and occupied
Europe.

Auschwitz-Birkenau became the killing centre where the largest numbers of
European Jews were killed. After an experimental gassing there in September 1941
of 850 malnourished and ill prisoners, mass murder became a daily routine.

By mid 1942, mass gassing of Jews using Zyklon-B began at Auschwitz, where
extermination was conducted on an industrial scale with some estimates running
as high as three million persons eventually killed through gassing, starvation,
disease, shooting, and burning.
/Louis Bülow

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